Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-09
r&RR ON ELM STREET.

HarmOmiess Club House-The New
 CIub-OrSanized From the Utopias
 Hut on a Larger Scnle-L1ke the Har-
 monTe Club of New York-The Lew
 erett Candee House-The Price $2O,-
 OOO-A Five Years Lease With Pur.
 chasing Privileges 1000 Raised for
 the Fitting Up.
 The movement on foot for the organiza- tion of new German club 1n this city in place of the Utopia club has taken such defi- nite shape that all the facts can now be giv- en. In an interview with a member of the committee last night it was learned that the new club will be named the Harmonic It is 20 named after the Harmonic of New
 York, the leading German club of that city. The committee have secured five years' lease of the brown stone fronted house on Elm street known as the Leverett Candee house, and at present, as for several years past, occupied by Dr. J. H. Smith, the
 dentist. The terms are $500 year for the
 first three years and $1 ,000 year thereafter, with the privilege of purchasing it within the first three years at the price of 1000. The property is owned by the Mechanics bank and is a very handsome structure, cen- trally located and very desirable generally for club purposes. The committee who have the matter in charge and were recently ap- pointed for the purpose by the Utopias are Maier Zunder (chairman), Max Adler, M. Sonnenberg, Louis Osterweis, B. Rogowski,
 M. Myers, Harry Asher, Max Strauss, M. Kahn, all well known and influential citizens. The premises will be taken possession of probably by Dec. l. It was estimated that | about $3,000 will be required to equip and | furnish the club building, and $2,000 was subscribed in ten minutes for the purpose ! rhi V ha and will be no trouble whatever to get the other $1,- l GOO. The subscriptions are stock subscrip- 1 tions in $25 shares. The club room will be 1 equipped with billiard tables, and various 1 other means Of recreation, and with all the l leading newspapers and periodicals and fine | library. The club will be rendered cheer ful and inviting place in all respects, and 1 will be organized on a new basis. There will l he 10 restriction as to age in membership, all citizens acceptable being eligible who are 21 l years of age and upward. Thus the old and ] the young can fraternize, and the club will be a place for wholesale recreation and | mutual improvement and advancement. Il l will resemble largely in it's streng points the ! Harmonic of New York, 8 famous and first. l class organization. There will be no pains
 or efforts spared to make the club first class | in every respect. The club will give grand reception on the occasion of the opening o1 l it's new quarters, probably about January 1st l It will be place also which the lady friends
 of the membership can visit as occasion prompts. All the present members of th' | present Utopia club become members of the
 new club. It is undoubtedly the intention 1 of the club to purchase the Candee building
 and make it the clubs permanent head quarters.
 l The Candee residence was built by Leveret
 Candee, who was for many years one of oul ! most prominent citizens, at a cost of abou 1 $60,000. It was built about thirty years ago ! It has been in the market for several year.
 past.